Excerpt from a Newsweek story about Paul Krugman by Evan Thomas: (emp add)

If you are of the establishment persuasion (and I am), reading Krugman makes you uneasy. You hope he's wrong, and you sense he's being a little harsh (especially about Geithner), but you have a creeping feeling that he knows something that others cannot, or will not, see. By definition, establishments believe in propping up the existing order. Members of the ruling class have a vested interest in keeping things pretty much the way they are.

That sort of thing wouldn't have been written five, ten, or twenty years ago. This is Evan Thomas, self-described establishment fan, and he's using the language of class, which is not too far away from the language of class warfare.

This financial crisis appears to have triggered a fundamental change in perspective, both by the citizenry and the media.

The financial crisis wasn't the trigger -- the Obama election was the trigger. The man and his administration are steeped in decades of class warfare rhetoric -- Ayers, Wright, ACORN, and the whole socialist culture.

Class warfare existed 5-20 years ago on college campuses at the meetings of the Communist/Socialist societies. I don't think that Obama's supporters -- Democrats especially -- understood that these ideas were going to enter the mainstream of American politics if they elected what the right warned was a socialist candidate.

Fortunately, class warfare is a non-starter for middle America. The more the Democrats tie themselves to class warfare, the easier it will be for American moderates to move away from the Democratic party.

Americans aspire to become as rich as their wealthy neighbor. They do not aspire to impoverish their wealthy neighbor to their level of wealth. Therein lies the difference between the right and the left.

Evan Thomas is the grandson of Norman Thomas, a Socialist candidate for President many times.

"Americans aspire to become as rich as their wealthy neighbor. They do not aspire to impoverish their wealthy neighbor to their level of wealth."

Americans do not like their wealthy neighbors stealing their retirement funds and nullifying their pension agreements. They do not aspire to impoverish their wealthy neighbors but they sure as hell want to see entitled and snobbish thieves go to jail.

why doesn't evan thomas mention how krugman developed an antithesis against obama during the contested primary? which has grown and developed into a longstanding grudge. neither does he mention the first time krugman warned about the dangers of derivatives. when was that exactly?